The CV that got me my first university job [All the MISTAKES]

[@Tebsana]

The timing of this could not have been better! I have been working on my first academic CV this week for PhD applications and this video is so useful. Thank you!!!

[@jc-tu6pg]

andy, have you considered doing one-on-one coaching for grad students? you'd be really good at it!

[@eimienwanlanibhagui4859]

One of the things I have come to ❤ not like about your videos here is that you lay it bare. Maybe this is so because you are 'unencumbered'! Thanks for sharing, Dr. A. S.

[@rodolfosantiago3138]

Andy awesome video and so helpful! IF you ever have a time could you do a similar video on a CV for industry?! IM pretty sure a lot of people would find it helpful! Keep up the good work!!

[@mauricioalvarez7568]

Great tips! would love if you go deeper into building connections, especially during undergrad. Sometimes it can be tricky to know who one should ask for a letter of recommendation or even be a reference.

[@chrisdonnell7200]

Best bet is a prof you did undergrad research with or TA'd for

[@TheSabazainab]

Congratulations...!! This is great.

[@snlvl]

This video came in the very right moment I droped from my current PhD position. I still don't know at all if I should try again another PhD or try industry, but I am editing my CV so all your suggestions will be super helpful.

[@chrisdonnell7200]

A resume for industry should be quite a bit different, for one thing significantly shorter. Work experience should also go higher, right below education and above research and projects and such

[@katto4586]

Thanks for sharing the dirty laundry Andy - really helpful. I am interested in becoming a pure maths lecturer/researcher. I'm doing my masters (coursework) - thesis year next year. I'm wanting work at a university while I'm doing my PhD. I'm having trouble finding any sort of job that I would be suitable for. So many uni jobs require a phd with a research angle or lecturing with teaching experience (which I can't be considered for at this point). My undergrad was maths/physics. I'm thinking - tutoring, demonstrator or some sort of science lab tech job. I would like something that exposes me to university life (100% online university student for the last seven years - started uni when I was 15 so it's all I've ever known). I would like something that gives me a chance to interact with staff and student and share the joy of learning about nerdy stem stuff. The whole university career path is really confusing - so hard to know what to search for ? Anybody got any ideas ?

[@joseferreirapinto9523]

There are features you may have explained in other videos: visual Cv, video Cv, links as proof (videos?). How to pass the ATS algorithm or ATS friendly Cv. Matching the keywords with what you have and highlight it (up in the sections?). The friends test is great and preferable with three to five people with similar backgrounds and diverse backgrounds. A one-page or multi-page? I had a bigger challenge because I worked 25 years in corporate and doing my phd and graduating at 50… so the Cv will be different comparing to the majority of your audience. Last but not least, the cv as a proxy of the interview: to what extent it provides a good or a bad start? These are just some thoughts that came to my mind. Should we use ORCID and other links that summarise all academic endeavours?

[@riyamehta7731]

Hey. Can the same format of the CV be followed while applying for a PhD program?

[@DrAndyStapleton]

Yes it can

[@Kelvin-ed6ce]

Is it necessary to have industrial jobs before getting a tenure track, say in fields like theoretical physics, pen and paper math kinds of field? Any industrial job wouldn't be a good fit for a mathematical physicist. And then my supervisor doesn't have enough funds to support me being a teaching assistant, so i can't get a record of teaching in my CV. So the CV looks just pure research research and research. What do you think? Just get more papers published and that's it? Thanks

[@DrAndyStapleton]

No industry experience is required for tenure. Publish, publish, publish and apply for grants...

[@Kelvin-ed6ce]

@@DrAndyStapleton good to know that my lack of industrial experience at age 27 now isn't the end of the world... although should i fail in academia, and have to come out to industry, no one would hire me then after I complete my PhD..

[@chrisdonnell7200]

@@Kelvin-ed6ce that's also not true, industry will definitely pick up fresh PhD's. A bit trickier but they definitely will, mainly research labs and stuff.

[@Kelvin-ed6ce]

@@chrisdonnell7200 thanks

[@Kelvin-ed6ce]

@@chrisdonnell7200 mathematical 0hysicists know nothing about experimental labs though.

[@chemistryphysics716]

Your CV doesn't matter that much as you think. Who you worked for and their letter of recommendation means way more. I know of many cases where the CV was very weak with only 1 or 2 mediocre publications but the PI is extremely famous and says the student is the best in 25 years. The kid interviews and is very average but that letter lingers in our minds. I have been on many search committees where this person gets interviewed and the job is theirs to lose.

[@chemistryphysics716]

This CV is extremely weak. only 2 publications in mediocre journals. 1 first author paper. This guy thinks he can get a tenure track faculty job? Geez. I had 6 JACS papers, 2 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and 1 PNAS. 2 of them highlighted in nature and science and C&E News during my PhD at a top 10 program. I had another 4 papers published from my PhD while I was a postdoc in langmuir and JACS. I then went on a got a damon runyon postdoc at Harvard and then a faculty job at a top 10 department. Now a tenured full prof. I'm sorry Andy, but you were way delusional to think you could have gotten a faculty job and survived. I have a meeting each year with my grad students individually and ask what they want to do in the future and give them a reality check if they are on or off that trajectory. This is the fault of the PI not the student.

[@Noissimsarm]

Literally cannot tell if this is a troll or not.

[@chemistryphysics716]

@@Noissimsarm literally a professor who gets amused with all these advice videos on PhD's and professors. sometimes the info is such nonsense that I have to comment to correct it.

[@DelFuego10]

This comment radiates some serious 'peaked in high school' energy. Honestly, your 'experience' that you're so proud of isn't necessarily indicative of an individual who would excel in science - rather, someone who lends credence to the belief that 'Top 10 institutions' and publication records are anything beyond marketing and arbitrary milestones, respectively. Andy's goal in this video was, with comedic effect, to run through his older CVs and highlight the strengths and weaknesses. Yours appears to have been to peacock and seek validation for your work performed years prior, which I would like to hope holds little bearing over your current career. I pray that those students you gave a 'reality check' sought a second opinion from someone who hasn't been deluded by their desperation to feel valued.

[@chemistryphysics716]

@@DelFuego10 LOL. I"m giving my credentials because there are too many quacks like Andy giving nonsense advice to students and graduate students and aspiring professors. My comment radiates achievement and experience. I don't need to peacock pal. Andy's CV is just not very good and non-competitive. You guys want to listen to a shmuck like Andy go ahead. You want real advice from a guy who is on the other side then you will pay attention to the details in my comment. if you are interested in being a science prof., especially chemistry then top 10 institutions, who your PI was and publications is the metric.

[@chrisdonnell7200]

@@Noissimsarm a professional adult would never respond so childishly, so guessing a troll